Past Events
Penn V-Day Presents: Penn Monologues
2/20, 7PM @ Rotunda
2/21 & 2/22, 7PM @ ARCH Auditorium
Penn V-Day is one of the largest and most successful social justice movements on the University of Pennsylvania's campus. Made up of undergraduate and graduate students, Penn V-Day has become the catalyst for mobilizing all genders to heighten awareness of violence against female…
Graduate Research Colloquium: Angelina Eimannsberger (Comparative Literature) and Heather Jaber (Annenberg School for Communication)
APC/GSWS Conference Room, Fisher-Bennett Hall, Suite 345
Angelina Eimannsberger: Sophocles’ Antigone and Kamila Shamsie’s Home Fire: Women, Kinship, and the State In her 2000 lecture turned book Antigone’s Claim, Judith Butler engages with Sophocles’ play Antigonebecause she is curious about “what happened to those feminist efforts to…
Contemporary Iranian Fiction in Translation: A Panel Discussion with Moniro Ravanipour, Mohamad Ghanoonparvar, Fatemeh Shams (GSWS Affiliated Faculty), Mahyar Entezari
Kelly Writers House in the Arts Cafe
Join us for an evening with internationally acclaimed Iranian-American author Moniro Ravanipour. Ravanipour was born in Jofreh, a village on the coast of the Persian Gulf. Her birthplace has had a substantial impact on her writing career. In addition to children stories…
Control Societies Speaker Series: Stephanie Dinkins, Stony Brook University
Annenberg School, Room 500
Afro-Now-ism: Community, Craft and the Vernacular in Artificial Intelligence takes the position that everyone participating in society is an expert in our experiences within the community infrastructures which inform the makeup of artificially intelligent systems. Although we may…
On Developing an Exhibition on the Technologies of (Queer) Porn
Class of 1978 Pavilion, sixth floor, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library
The 2019-2020 Workshop in the History of Material Texts will be welcoming John Anderies (William Way LGBT Community Center) for a talk entitled "On Developing an Exhibition on the Technologies of (Queer) Porn." John writes: The John J. Wilcox, Jr. Archives at William Way LGBT…